[Avid-L2] Red Rocket Cine-X information

Since it turned out to be pretty hard to get decent and comprehensible info
on the current state of Red Rocket and Rocket Cine-X, I thought I'd compile
what I could gather so far:

Required Hardware
These are the minimum hardware requirements that the computer system has to
meet if you want to use the RED RocketTM board.

- PCI-e x16 physical slot providing at least 8 lanes (x8) - 2048 MB RAM
Supported Operating Systems

The RED RocketTM board can be used with the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 - Windows XP SP2 or later (Vista coming soon) - Linux (Red
Hat)

MXF files are now supported in RocketCine-X with DNxHD 36-220. Burn is will
add to the transcode times, but the increase in transcode time is not that
significant. Processor, Ram and Drive speed will increase help increase
transcode times, however the RED Rocket will be doing almost all the work.

Metadata (through ALE or AAF) is very complete when using RCX to create
DNxHD MXF Avid media.

Reduser forums suggest that Rocket Cine-X software will turn multiple clips
into a single MXF file, which I don't get, but could probably live with.

The two ports on the back aren't DVI ports, they're DMS-59 plugs. They go to
two breakout cables included with the Red Rocket that give you 4 dual-lnk
DVI outputs for realtime playback of Red R3D files to a 4K monitor or
projector. That makes me think that the card is not a replacement for an
NVIDIA card. If that were the case, I'd be interested to know if MC-Soft
would run on it.

For (especially European) film folks, it is good to note that currently,
there appears to be an issue with 24.000fps footage. You may not create
DNxHD 24.000p media with Rocket Cine-X on the Mac, but this is supposed to
work on PC. From what I hear, this all should be resolved very shortly. See
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=35172&page=2 for details.

Note that Michael Phillips mentioned in this thread that Avid will shortly
be posting a step-by-step guide for Rocket Cine-X for Avid workflows.

Have ordered a Red Rocket today, will try to update this info once the item
arrives.

Job.

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